School News

Homeschoolers

Washington County Parks will sponsor a homeschool outdoor classroom for ages 5-11, Love Birds, at the park’s office on Feb. 14. Sessions begin at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Learn to identify birds, take part in a seed study and make a bird feeder to take home. Bring a clean and dry soda or water bottle.

Fee is $1. Call 724-228-6867 to register.

Musical awards

Mt. Lebanon High School student Ziqi Meng won second place and a $150 scholarship at the Pittsburgh Philharmonic “Young Artist Concerto Competition.” He played the first movement of the Bruch Violin Concerto.

Zhaoliang Du, a double bass and piano player in the high school orchestra, was a winner in the Pittsburgh Concert Society’s 2013 Young Artists Competition. He was awarded a $500 Anna and Benjamin Perlow Scholarship to further his musical education and will be featured in a March 17 recital at Kresge Recital Hall in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. The adjudicator was Dr. Adrian Daly, dean of the Conservatory at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Scholarship available

The Giant Oaks Garden Club awards a $1,000 scholarship each year to a student entering into an environmental field or a field of biology other than the medical field. Scholarship packets can be obtained at any high school guidance counselor office. The deadline for this year’s application is April 10.

Applications are now being accepted for Clearview Federal Credit Union’s 14th Annual Ralph B. Canterbury Scholarship Award. This year, ten scholarships will be awarded in the amount of $1,000 each. Winners will be honored at the Credit Union’s annual meeting held at the RMU Island Sports Center, Pittsburgh, on June 22.

The scholarship award is open to new and current Clearview members. Applicants will be judged on a number of criteria including: academic performance, community activities/involvement, personal goals and an essay on “Why I choose to belong to Clearview FCU.” Applications must be received by Clearview by April 1, 2013.

For an application and list of scholarship guidelines, visit clearviewfcu.org.

CLO internships

Applications are now available for the 2013 Pittsburgh CLO Summer Internship Program. The program runs approximately 10 weeks beginning in mid-May to early August, depending upon the internship being applied for, and affords students 18 years of age and older the opportunity to work one-on-one with musical theater industry professionals.